Kamala Harris: Make the FBI investigate Ford allegation, not us
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 8:41 am on September 18, 2018
For a former Attorney General and a sitting US Senator, Kamala Harris (D-CA) has a lot of trouble grasping basic concepts such as jurisdiction. Norah O’Donnell asked Harris on CBS This Morning whether the Senate Judiciary Committee would really put a “survivor†under public scrutiny in a hearing, as Chuck Grassley plans to do by inviting both Christina Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh to address her allegations. Harris replies that the FBI should be “compelled to do its job†by opening an investigation into the claim, as part of its background check on Kavanaugh:
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“I believe her... anybody who comes forward at this point to be prepared to testify in the U.S. Senate against someone who's being nominated to one of the most powerful positions in the U.S. government, that takes an extraordinary amount of courage.†--
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"I believe that the FBI… should be compelled to do its job in terms of completing their background investigation and that's not being done." -- Sen. @KamalaHarris on sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh pic.twitter.com/JPqQFxdFXf
Actually, the Department of Justice answered this question last night by pointing out the obvious. The FBI does not investigate local crimes:
The Justice Department says the sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh “does not involve any potential federal crime†for the FBI to investigate.Not only does it not involve a federal crime, it doesn’t have enough specificity to warrant a local police investigation either. At least from the reporting so far, Ford doesn’t have a specific time or place where this occurred, and the only other named person in the allegation — Mark Judge — denies it ever happened at all. Plus, the statute of limitations would have long ago passed on an aggravated assault, especially when committed by a minor. But even if Ford remembered the specific date, time, and provided the names of potential witnesses, and it had happened within the statute of limitations, it still wouldn’t be the FBI’s jurisdiction. It’s a local crime, and the local police would have to investigate it.
One would think that a woman who served as a state’s top law-enforcement officer would remember that. And for that matter, Harris seems confused about the purpose of the background investigations the FBI performs:
The department said in a statement Monday night that the FBI’s role during background investigations is to evaluate whether the nominee could pose a national security risk and then provide that information “for the use of the decision makers.â€
The department says it’s not the job of the FBI to judge the significance or the credibility of an accusation.more
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/09/18/kamala-harris-make-fbi-investigate-ford-allegation-not-us/
